Improvement in molasses-pitchers



L. WAGNER.

Molasses Pitcher.

No. 167,862. -PatentedSept.2-I,1875.

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PATENT OFFICE.

BROGKUNIER 8t 00., OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN MOLASSES-PITCHERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 167,862, dated September 21, 1875; application filed August 26, 1875.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, LoUIs WAGNER, of Wheeling, county of Ohio, State of West Virginia, have invented or discovered a new and useful Improvement in Molasses-Pitchers; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, concise, and exact description thereof, reference being bad to the accoinpan yin gdrawing making a part of this specification, which shows my improvement in perspective.

My present invention is an improvement on' the molasses or sirup pitcher patented to me March 30,1875, by Letters Patent No. 161,364, and relates particularly to the pouring-spout, which, in my present invention, is made with the exterior contour of the ordinary ewerspout, instead of tubular, as shown in 'said patent.

The body B of the pitcher, except its bot tom, together with the annular drip-cup 12, its bottom 8, and the pouring-spout a, are all made of glass at one operation, either by pressing, &c., as described in said patent, in molds having suitably-shaped cavities, or in other suitable way, the mode by pressing, &c., being, as I think, the preferable. The handle may also be pressed at the same time, or be attached in other suitable way. The moldoavities in which the spout a is formed, instead of giving a tubular spout, as in the patent referred to, with a drip-opening through the bottom of the drip-cup at its rear side, are so shaped and disposed with reference to each other as to give a spout, a, ewer-shaped in the contour of its upper edge, as shown, and ex tending only far enough around on either side in order to give about the breadth desired in actual use. The hole at the rear of the bottom of the drip-cup, as described in said patent,

then becomes unnecessary, and is wholly omitted. 1

So much of the fluid as passes down outside the spout a into the drip-cup is drained back past the edges of the base of the spout a into the tubular opening through which the pouring is done 5 and the distance it has to run is so short that the bottom 8 of the drip-cup may be made horizontal, if so preferred, though a slight slope toward the rear I consider preferable.

The finishing of the pitcher and the attach ment of the lid, are done in the usual or any known way. The upper end of the spout a may receive a slight outward flare like an ordinary pitcher-spout, if so preferred, provided room be left for the lid to pass it in shutting down and opening. I

I am aware that the glass spout described is not new in such pitchers in connection with a metallic drip -cup; but the spout, with a ewer-shaped contour, the drip-cup, and the pitcher-body, (by which I mean the tubular or barrel portion,) made wholly of glass at one operationand in one piece, I believe to be anew manufacture.

I claim as my invention A 7 As a new article of manufacture, a glass pitcher-body, B, having a glass drip-cup, b, and glass spout a of eWer-shaped contour, all made in one piece and at one operation, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand.

LOUIS WAGNER.

Witnesses:

J OHN HJHoBBs, B. M. HILDRETH. 

